Simon and Nick are back, after a series of “Calendar Difficulties” and then the fact that before WWDC unless you are into all the
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Category: Essential Apple Podcast
Essential Apple Extra: Nemo Review of ThinkSound ov202w Wireless Over-Ear Headphones
No you’re not going mad, and yes there should have been a show by now! Unfortunately with Bank Holidays, and Nick’s Choir, and his
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Essential Apple Podcast 304: UK wants Spooks in iPhones
Obscenely late putting this one up – Sorry! Also, yes I know it should be iCloud in the title but that typeface has no
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Essential Apple Podcast 303: Zombies, Zombies
Well it is 2025! So guess what? The Essential Apple is back again, late as ever… anyway Nick and Simon talk about some stuff
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Essential Apple Podcast 298: Duck Down!
Nick visits Everything Electric, the Duck is downed, Apple buys all the 2nm, explains (sort of) what went wrong with the “deleted” photos, ICQ
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Essential Apple Podcast 297: iPads and other things
Another week, another show, and Simon and Nick consider do iPad Pros need to do more? Should Apple perhaps differentiate the Pros with their
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Essential Apple Podcast 296: Yeah – M4 Baby!
So Apple had an event… and unsurprisingly it was about iPads, and how! Also the rumoured M4 arrived (in a bit of a change
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Essential Apple Podcast 295: TikTok is on the Clock
Late again, really must do better – but this is what we thought might come out of the Let Loose event which was due
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Essential Apple Podcast 293: Where goes A.I.?
After a bit of a cock up last week which was completely Simon’s fault (and he’s very very sorry about it) Simon does a
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Essential Apple Podcast 292: AI image search with CYME
This week Simon and Nick are joined by Mattieu Kopp co-founder and CTO of CYME.io, makers of Avalanche (a tool for migrating photo libraries
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Essential Apple Podcast 291: WWW is 35 years old!
On this show: the World Wide Web turned 35, Nick still has hacker issues, Sonoma bugs, Vision Pro used in neuro surgery, hints that
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Essential Apple Podcast 290: Spats, Hacks & A.I.
On the show this time, Nick got hacked! Apple and Epic get into another spat, in which they both came off looking stupid, and
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Essential Apple Podcast 289: So long Apple car… We never knew you at all!
This week Simon has a new microphone so hopefully the sound will be a little better. Meanwhile apparently the “Titan has Fallen”, the Apple
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Essential Apple Podcast 288: Happy Birthday Steve
This week Simon and Nick consider Steve’s birthday and, sadly, two years of war in the Ukraine, plus Post Quantum Cryptography, Apple’s first folding
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Essential Apple Podcast 287: Small, not far away…
Late yet again! However, this time Nick and Simon talk about the DMA (again), the Vision Pro (again), Peleton backpedalling, and look at the
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Essential Apple Podcast 286: Don’t Mess About
Simon and Nick have a chat about the Vision Pro, Apple’s DMA proposals and the Quarterly results… And yes, the title is a deliberate
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Essential Apple Podcast 285: Seafarers & The Wizard of Woke
This week Simon and Nick are joined by the Revd Canon Andrew Dotchin, Suffolk MUG member, longtime Mac user and Vicar of Felixstowe (Britain’s
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Essential Apple Podcast 284: Visions of Angels (Landing)
Happy New Year! It is 2024 (even though it was 1976 a few months ago wasn’t it?) Anyway, Simon and Nick finally get back
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Essential Apple Podcast 276: Pick & Mix
Another super late release of a show with Simon and Nick (really have to find a more efficient way to process the show notes…,
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Essential Apple Podcast 275: This and that, and other stuff…
Late again but there we go – apologies for that. Anyway Simon and Nick got together as usual to chat about the news stories
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